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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1923, Page 3

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(by TELEGRAPH —PIMI PH ESS ASSOCIATION.] TRIAL OF NATIONALISTS. CAIRO, April 21. At a further hearing of the bomb outrage trials, the Crown Prosecultor, in describing the murder [dots, said that plan- were made to kill Englishmen with a catapult invented to hurl a steel arrow with a poisoned tip. This was intended for Use at night, eliminating the ri'k ol detection by the sound of shots, lie recounted the brutal murder of tin Englishman’s servant because i! was (eared that he had warned his master the.;, lie was going to he murdered, and also how live members (>f the gang, who are alleged to have monh'red Drown, were asked, when setting (Hit on the errand, where they were going, and replied : --"To do our duty a.s patriots." HAIL !RATION SCHEMES. LONDON. April 21. General Rramwcll Hoot it. of the Salvation Army, lias signed an agreement w ith the Duke of Dnven.shi; e. i" develop a new scheme to enroll, age the emigration to the I). .minions > I single emigrate o to the In minions < ; single women, widow.- with Imilies, and also to plum.-. Follow mg on a decision of a ('oh uiul (dice conference to (eat. 1 several experiment'd Co tuny Committee'; m furtherance of migration, a misting was held at Cannon Street Hotel. London, ti. form a committee fur Kent. Tim speakers favoured the formation of '‘Counties Overseas” hv the migration of families in hatches. They also urged the establishment of eo-open.tivo farms in the Dominions. A LABOR ATTITUDE. LONDON. April 21. Regarding criticism of a ievent incident in Norfolk, when a Labour iingistralc attended the North YVal'imdiain Session- ti adjudicate on certain tarni .strike ea-e.-. the L, id ( iiancellor punts nut Dial only the mn-l ex: e; 1 1ioiiaI rir-euiii-lances would justify sura a cour.-e. Suspicious might he engendered in the [niljic mind that a magistrate -o attending was illllu on ed by some interest or 11 ej mliee on one s ah' i r t ii. ell.or. and doubts of the impartiality tf justice might tlu'ieb\ he aroused. A pat t from ihis. .magistrate; might -It outside their own district.-.

TROTHK Y'S “A I i.Ai EXT.” lON DON. A ' rll 2], The "I).: ilv fix press'-." M. i o:resp ■mien! state-: Tim- t ha- disposed of the 1 com 1 • Doit im is dying of poi-on by apfinni.g at a mod mg in tile Kremlin. lie weigh- ten pounds murr tiian lie did last yea,. JTa Ll AN POLITICS. ROME, April 21. Follow ing oil the resigua tion of the Pojinln! isj members oi the .Ministry, already cabled, a meeting of 70 of the I'npu! irist deputies decided to support ALis-oliui and the Fu-ciaii policy. THE ECONOMIC C ONFI'.R ENCT.. Fids tsf'OPE (iFTLT.VLD. (Received this day ai 0.2 b a.in.) LONDON. April 22. The ('oh null Ol’i'se in outlining tno scope of Dm Fc.ui'uoic t'o".il('i".'i'."e stat es that it v. ii! include the cattsidcration of (I) Ways and Mean- lor toe fuller development i f tie natrial resources of the Domii.imi-: f-'> inter-lin-pei-ia! caimneriv mid sliipn'tig I'oinnie-

nioiition- generally : (■"•) e-m .hunted action for ihe improveiiient leehnicnl leseareh : ( R Organisation i I ruwm ■ intelligence: (3) 1 niiirn, ion oi tlie law and practice in the Empire in eeitaiu matters a Heeling trail**- d>". jiim-nl-. It i- pointed out that. rogaidilig nviT,ei, -.cl 1 leim-iit • lb'.' coulcrcn'c vdl ret lev, progress on the linos haul <b w u in the resolii I’.on ol the Imperial Conference of 1021 ; also Ihe possibilities of further progress. (' uisider-ition will also he given to tin- in rk of the bodies already e-1 ahlished on an interIninerial basis for piirp. ses of eeanomie co-opera lien and probably the aspect - of the external com uiercia I relations of flic Empire. Fnder these head.- wnl come: (]) The que-Coi! of mufeal e'oj’eratioii among the various g-.iein-'.lreals to safeguard the ee.unmie interests in relation to foreign countries: (2.)’ Proposals for promoting mb motional arrangements for the more eq’iuabie treatment of <•< miner e: (3i The po.-itioii of Government enterprises regarding taxation and 1 'gal lia mil o . EOFNDATION Ol'' RDM G. (Received this day at 9.2-, a.ln.) RO.MR, Apiil 22. .Mussolini, imuinteil <nr a charger, reviewed 1i I, I!: it I Easei-t- at tlie eelebra--111)11 of Ihe foundation of Rome. Ho v. as cheered by dense crowds as he pas-eil along the street,-, r.r the head oi a long procession. MOKE SHOOTINGS. LONDON, April 22. The Copenhagen paper "Polilikeii stages Kra-sin at the Commissar- C earned urged terrorism should cease, maintaining ii was not now justified, and declaring he would resign ii n moderate policy na , net adopted. Telniehe! m supported this attitude. Coincidentally reports via lltlsingfors state ill.(mi) counter revolutionaries v ore lately expelled tailii Rus-ia, and IS,HI 111 imprisoned. Hie majority belonging to the edoiiatod elas-. M bile Ziin.viidi was making a tour ol ( au-,-asia a rebellion broke out, the population demanding independence, ami as a. reprisal il2.‘i were shut in I'illis and -'l-*' l in otlier place’-. MINE DISASTER. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON. April 22. As the result of Hooding a < mil mine m Pensiiet t. Staiford-hire. live are missing and feared in be drowned. Eifty were in Hie pit when the water rush0J in. M'lie men made for the shafts, tig water sweeping behind anil carrying timber and everything along. Presently the iage became jammed, leaving nve behind. The eater Inis risen -O high that there i- little hope ot their safety. A thousand are lining tie pit. bank and pumping is ore. -coding frnnt i rally. EMIGRANTS LEANING SCOTLAND. LONDON. Ant'd 22. pi vo thousand emigrant- Eft Scotland during the week-end, three hundred from Hebrides, the largest party non, tlie Islands since the clearances -eventv years ago. A few are young women and older folk, ami the rest are stnrd> men.